And I appreciate your concern. It's encouraging.

It would also be a help if I could understand how people can treat other people like "roaches" and "dogs" and not expect them to resent it.

It seems reasonable to me that over the years the "roaches" and "dogs" might strike back the only way they know how. I was raised to do that, most of the people I know would do that.

Help me understand how a people, a group, could accept such treatment without feeling some powerful resentments. You seem to know the secret, or don't believe that happens. I don't, and, as you noted, can't keep up.

Arf

"We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel.... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours ... When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do will be to scurry around like drugged roaches in a bottle." -- Israeli Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan (Gad Becker, Yediot Ahronot 4/13/83, NYTimes 4/14/83)

"... we have no solution, that you shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wants to can leave -- and we will see where this process leads? In five years we may have 200,000 less people -- and that is a matter of enorous importance." -- Moshe Dayan encouraging the transfer of Gaza strip refugees to Jordan"